Thursday morning live from atlanta. Morning joe starts right now. Tomorrow is the first president ial debate. The big controversy is which drugs may be used tomorrow night. I just i just want to, you know, state for the record that i have no idea what drugs i will take when i watch the debate, but they will be potent and plentiful. Well, its finally here. Tonight, President Biden and donald trump are set to face off in their first president ial debate of this election cycle. It is a Pivotal Moment that could shake up the race for the white house. Well go over how both have been preparing their pitch to voters, and well show you a demonstration on how the microphones will actually work if biden or trump decides to interrupt each other. Mika is actually getting this technology from cnn, and well import it into morning joe and use it on me. Well set it up here, and itll work perfectly. Also, an abortion document was mistakenly reported by the Supreme Court. What are they doing . It goes u
Teenagers mother have been living together for some time. They say there was no stay away order against rconroy, and polie say they havent been called to the house before for any complaints of domestic disturbance. The mother was treated at the scene. Her teenage son was charged with seconddegree murder, but that may only be temporary. Ill have more about that at 6 00. Live in spotsylvania county, pat collins, news4. Im Meagan Fitzgerald in Prince Georges County following up on yet another Domestic Violence case that turned deadly for two women. The question tonight is why the suspect with a lengthy criminal history was out on bond in the first place. Well have details coming up in our next half hour. The family of freddie gray is one step closer tonight to receiving a more than 6 Million Police custody. The citys mayor is set to approve a smaller payment for the law firm representing baltimore in the Justice Department investigation into police. That payment would be 1. 2 million. The
Cspan kiron skinner, coeditor of reagan in his own hand, what do people get if they buy this book . Guest they see unvarnished Ronald Reagan, long before the presidency, writing, reading, thinking about every major issue facing the united states, and also drafting a strategy, quite surprisingly for many, to end the cold war peacefully without a major hegemonic war. Cspan can you remember the first time you ever heard of all this . Guest what do you mean, the Radio Broadcasts, his writing . Cspan the Radio Broadcasts, where youyou got yourself involved in it. Guest i was working in the Reagan Library. Id written nancy reagan, i believe it was in 1996; i wrote her aa letter about my research on the end of the cold war, and i said, im deeply fascinated by the american side of the story. Most of the research in the 1990s that i saw in the scholarly literature focused on the soviet side and on Eastern Europe and, you know, for good reasons. The revolutions were fascinating to people, and al
Guest i was a postdoc at ucla and i was a fellow at the Hoover Institution. And so i wrote her and said, im interested in the american side of the story. I dont think theres enough reporting on it, and id like to look at the president s private papers. i didnt know what would be there, but i thought there might be something to help me to unravel the american contribution. And so she granted me access to the papers and hundreds of archival boxes. Into the project i came upupon a few boxes, actually storage boxes, filled with hundreds, reallyliterally thousands of pieces of paper of reagans handwriting. And it took a while to figure out what it meant. Some of it was disorganized. Some of it was organized in file folders, but not all of it. And it was fascinating. It was. Cspan whwhere are you from originally . Wheres home . Guest i was born in chicago, but i grew up in the bay area, so i have to claim the bay area i moved there at age three, so i grew up near stanford. First San Francisc
Thates a thats a kind of funny sentence. For Justice Breyer, you may hear hat all the time, but not if you are sitting on the massachusetts court. I think the reaction did take me by surprise. Do you think your experience growing up at in apartheid south africa strengthen you in anyway for the kinds of courageous could positions you took on the court . No. [laughter] i mean, when you become a judge, you bring to that position your entire life history, and when you are sitting on the court, you work very hard to put aside your personal views. And so and gay marriage really was not part of my thinking in south africa. In fact, gay marriage had not been part of my thinking in the United States. So i did not make a onetoone connection. My life had been involved with issues of race discrimination, deeply involved in issues of gender discrimination to some extent, involved in issues of this ability law, but i can recall and i do not say this proudly, but looking at the extent of how much thi